Particle Accelerators Around the World

Please note that this list does not include accelerators which are used for medical or industrial purposes only.

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Sorted by Location

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	Europe
ALBA	Synchrotron Light Facility, Barcelona, Spain
ANKA	Ångströmquelle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
ARRONAX	Accelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology in Nantes Atlantique,Saint Herblain, France
BESSY II	Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany
CeBeTeRad	Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warszawa, Poland
CEMHTI	Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation, Orléans, France
CERN	Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire, Geneva, Suisse (LHC, PS-Division, SL-Division)
CMAM	Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
CNA	Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, Seville, Spain
COSY	Cooler Synchrotron, IKP, FZ Jülich, Germany (COSY Status)
CYCLONE	Cyclotron of Louvain la Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
DELTA	Dortmunder ELekTronenspeicherring-Anlage, Zentrum für Synchrotronstrahlung der Technischen Universität Dortmund, Germany
DESY	Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany (XFEL, PETRA III, FLASH, ILC, PITZ)
ELBE	ELectron source with high Brilliance and low Emittance, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR), Germany
ELETTRA	AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy
ELSA	Electron Stretcher Accelerator, Bonn University, Germany (ELSA status)
ESRF	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
ESSB	ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
GANIL	Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds, Caen, France
GSI	GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
HISKP	Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany (Isochron Cyclotron)
IHEP	Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow region, Russian Federation
INFN	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy, LNF - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (DAFNE, DAFNE beam test facility) LNL - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Tandem, CN Van de Graaff, AN 2000 Van de Graaff), LNS - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, (Superconducting Cyclotron)
ISA	Institute for Storage Ring Facilities (ASTRID, ASTRID2, ELISA), Aarhus, Denmark
ISIS	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, U.K.
JINR	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation (NICA)
MAMI	Mainzer Microtron, Universität Mainz, Germany
MAX IV	Lund University, Sweden
MPI-HD	Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
MIC	Microanalytical center at JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MLS	Metrology Light Source, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
PITZ	Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen, Germany
RUBION	Zentrale Einrichtung für Ionenstrahlen und Radionuklide, Universität Bochum, Germany
S-DALINAC	Superconducting Darmstadt linear accelerator, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
SLS	Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
SOLEIL	Synchrotron SOLEIL, GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX, France
TSL	The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden
	North America
88" Cycl.	88-Inch Cyclotron, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA
ALS	Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA (ALS Status)
ANL	Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL (Advanced Photon Source APS, Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System ATLAS)
BATES	Bates Linear Accelerator Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
BNL	Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (NSLS II, RHIC)
CAMD	Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University
CENPA	Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, USA
CESR	Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
CHESS	Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
CLS	Canadian Light Source, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
CNL	Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California Davis, CA
FNAL	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , Batavia, IL
FSU	John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory, Florida State University, USA
IAC	Idaho accelerator center, Pocatello, Idaho
ISNAP	Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics, Notre Dame University, USA
IUCF	Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana
JLab	aka TJNAF, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (formerly known as CEBAF), Newport News, VA
LAC	Louisiana Accelerator Center, U of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana
LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
MIBL	Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory, University of Michigan
NSCL	National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University
ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee
OUAL	John E. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory, Ohio University, USA
PBPL	Particle Beam Physics Lab (Neptune-Laboratory, PEGASUS - Photoelectron Generated Amplified Spontaneous Radition Source)
RPI	The Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory, MANE School of Enginering, USA
SLAC	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (SLC - SLAC Linear electron positron Collider, SSRL - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory)
SNS	Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
SRC	Synchrotron Radiation Center, U of Wisconsin - Madison
SURF III	Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland
TAMU	Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, USA
TRIUMF	Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
TUNL	Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, USA
UMASS	University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory, USA
UNAM	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
WMU	Van de Graaff Accelerator at the Physics Department of the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
WNSL	Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, USA
	South America
CAB	LINAC at Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina
LAFN	Laboratório Aberto de Física Nuclear, São Paulo, Brazil
LNLS	Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, Campinas SP, Brazil
RIBRAS	Radioactive Ion Beam in Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
TANDAR	Tandem Accelerator, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Asia
BEPC, BEPC II	Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, Beijing, China
HLS	Hefei Light Source, Univ. of Science & Technology of China, Hefei city, China
INDUS	Centre for Advanced Technology CAT, INDORE, India
KEK	National Laboratory for High Energy Physics ("Koh-Ene-Ken"), Tsukuba, Japan (KEK-B, 12 GeV proton synchrotron)
PAL	Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Korea
RIKEN	Institute of Physical and Chemical Research ("Rikagaku Kenkyusho"), Hirosawa, Wako, Japan
SESAME	Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan (under construction)
SPring-8	Super Photon ring - 8 GeV, Japan
SSRF	Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai, China
TPS	Taiwan Photon Source, Hsinchu, Taiwan
UAC	Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India
VECC	Variable Energy Cyclotron, Calcutta, India
VEPP	Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia (VEPP-3, VEPP-4M, VEPP-2000)
	Africa
iThemba	Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
	Australia
ANSTO	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Australia
ANU	Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
AS	Australian Synchotron, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MARC	Micro-Analytical Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia